Alas, my submission for this year’s Oracle OpenWorld was turned down by Oracle a little while ago.
Maybe I shouldn’t have installed this browser extension?
Tee-hee 🙂
I’m nothing if not persistent(ly annoying) – so I submitted a similar abstract to the 2016 RMOUG Training Days.
Submitted my Oracle OpenWorld 2015 presentation earlier. Â Today is the last day to submit proposals for presentations or tutorials.
Oracle have extended their deadline for proposals until May 6th!
According to a Book of Lists survey, 41% of people’s biggest fear is “public speaking”. Â To put that into perspective, “death” is the biggest fear for 19%, “flying” for 18% and “clowns” don’t even register (which does make me seriously doubt the survey’s credibility).
I gave my first public presentation at IOUG Collaborate 2015 last week in Las Vegas and I didn’t die.
Why did do make your presentation debut at the second largest Oracle event on the calendar?  Excellent question.
I will be presenting DBA 3.0 or “How to Become a Real-World Exadata DBA” at Collaborate 2015 – IOUG’s annual user conference – from April 12th to 16th at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. I submitted this as my abstract:
“DBA resources are more scarce than ever before and it can be very difficult to allocate time on anything but keeping the lights on – even when an organization has made a (substantial) hardware investment in Exadata.
However, if Exadata is treated like any other Oracle database, the promised “extreme performance” will likely be very underwhelming to developers, users and managers and can become unwieldy for DBAs to support.
On the other hand, when an organization configures and supports Exadata properly, they can realize exponential performance improvements in key IT infrastructure, can facilitate better business decisions and may actually reduce infrastructure costs.
The customer has bought a sports car – but might not realize that they haven’t taken it out of second gear (yet).
I will talk about the evolution of Exadata and then get into the “nuts and bolts” of how to support a high-performance Exadata environment as a Production DBA.
I will discuss how to get performance improvements of up to 20x, what NOT to do as an Exadata DBA and how Exadata can become the foundation of your organization’s high-performance enterprise infrastructure.”
I hope to see you in Las Vegas!
Dan Norris of the Maximum Availability Architecture team gave what sounded like a very interesting presentation at UKOUG 2014. There seemed to be a lot of really cool stuff at this year’s event, which is to be expected as I no longer reside in the UK!
I encourage you to take a look at the slides, but also at the interesting links he provided:
Naturally, he also quoted a plethora of My Oracle Support notes – some of the greatest hits and some which you might not have seen before:
Happy reading!
This email gem was a great way to start a Monday morning (after my first four-day weekend in years, no less):
“Congratulations! Your session proposal, 775 DBA 3.0 or “How to Become an Real-World Exadata DBA”, was accepted by the IOUG Conference Committee.
COLLABORATE 15 – IOUG Forum will take place from April 12-16, 2015 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.”
Obviously, this is a really cool thing. It’s a big honor as it’s the largest Oracle user group there is and I’m really excited about it.
Bizarrely, though, it’ll be my first “public” presentation as a DBA. I’m skipping “baby steps” altogether and going straight into presenting in front of (some, hopefully) super-smart boffins … in Las Vegas.
I’d better start thinking of a comedy routine to distract people … !
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